Transbrasil Boeing 737-4Y0 plane crash
Porto Alegre, Brazil
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The Boeing 737 was on a passenger flight and arrived at Salgado Filho Int'l Airport, Brazil. A thunderstorm was passing over the airport. The aircraft skidded off rain-soaked runway 29 while landing. 20 of the 111 passengers and crew were injured, most during the evacuation via the escape slides.
Porto Alegre, Brazil (Red dot on map)
Photos of the crash of Transbrasil (27th February, 2000)